Cases of mental disease : with practical observations on medical treatment; for the use of students / by Alexander Morison.

  • Morison, Alexander, 1779-1866.
Date:
1828
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Credit: Cases of mental disease : with practical observations on medical treatment; for the use of students / by Alexander Morison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    INTRODUCTION. JL he information we possess respecting the cli- nical treatment of mental diseases being very limited, I have been induced to add a little to it by this elementary publication, the object of which is to contribute towards supplying that deficiency, by presenting to students a collection of cases of ordinary occurrence, in which the medical treat- ment usually employed is detailed, in hopes that others, having extensive opportunities of observa- tion, will favour us with their experience in this department, either on the principle of arrangement here adopted, or on any other that may tend to render our ideas more correct, and our treatment more successful. To those who have paid atten- tion to this subject, the difficulty felt in obtain- ing clinical instruction respecting these diseases is well known. Various causes conspire to pro- duce this difficulty, the principal of which are the A